UNITED STATES: Effective presidents 'manage' advisers
You must be signed in to read this analysis
In this article
- White House organisation
- Formal structures
- Staff role
- Screening role
- Avoiding micromanagement
- Multiple staff structures
- Avoiding information bottlenecks
- Regan and Reagan
- 'Capturing' the president?
- Receiving and evaluating advice
- Effective 'advocacy'
- Controlling the advocates
- Managing conflicts
- Avoiding inhibiting advisers
- Lure of consensus
- Decision-making and Vietnam
- Eisenhower's process
- Johnson's ad hoc 'system'
- Over-reliance on 'wise men'
- Failure to 'cultivate' dissenters
- Idiosyncratic shortcomings
- Learning lessons
What is this?
This article is from the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, which analyses geopolitical, economic, social, business and industrial developments on a global and regional basis, providing clients with timely, authoritative analysis every business day of the year. Find out more about the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, or request a trial.